SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION NEWS

SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS - FALL 2017

DIVISION CHAIR:  William Cabin, CHAIR: (2017-2019), Assistant Professor, Social Work, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Email: tuf34901@temple.edu AND wcabin@umich.edu 



Inside this issue:

Note from the Chair 
Member News & Accomplishments 
SSWD Members on the Job Market 
Student Paper Competition 
Open Positions 
Newsletter Contributions Invited 



Note from the Chair

Greetings SSWD members! We hope you all had a great meeting in Montreal this past August. If by chance you could not make it, please know we look forward to the next time you can join us at an annual meeting. 

For those who organized and/or presided over sessions in Montreal (you know who you are!), thank you so very much for helping make this meeting so successful for the SSWD. We appreciate everyone’s hard work that goes on behind the scenes. For those who attended our member’s sessions, we hope you enjoyed listening and learning about SSWD member’s research. 

For graduate students, we hope you will submit for this year’s student paper competition. While the 2018 solicitation is not up yet on SSSP’s website, we encourage you to submit a manuscript when it is posted. As a friendly reminder, you also need to submit the same paper through the annual conference portal (really important if you want to win the prize money). This is required of all papers being submitted to division graduate student paper competitions.

Lastly, look for the call for submissions for our next annual conference in Philadelphia, “Abolitionist Approaches to Social Problems.” We have some stellar sessions planned and are excited to see what work SSWD members have in store for us! 

Sincerely
Bill  

Bill Cabin, JD, Ph.D., MSW, MPH

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Member News and Accomplishments
Recent Publications
       
NO NEWS. Let me know if you have any updates for future issues.

Awards and Announcements

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SSWD Members on the Job Market


Student Paper Competition

The Sociology and Social Welfare Division (SSWD) announces its 2018 Graduate Student Paper Competition for papers that advance our understanding of issues related to sociology and social welfare. Papers may explore and analyze any social welfare policy or institution along any dimension of interest. Qualitative and quantitative empirical analyses and theoretical papers are welcome.
To be eligible for submission, papers must be: 1) written between January 1, 2017 and January 31, 2018 and not yet published or submitted for scholarly review; 2) authored by one or more graduate students and not co-authored by any faculty or non-student colleagues; 3) 25 pages or less including references and tables;  4) accompanied by a letter/email from a faculty member at the student’s university nominating the paper for the competition; and received by the deadline of JANUARY 31, 2018. 
In addition to submitting the above materials, to be considered for the award, students are required to submit their papers to the 2018 SSSP conference, preferably to a Sociology & Social Welfare Division sponsored paper session, through the annual meeting Call for Papers by 1/31/18. The author must make a commitment to present the paper during SSSP annual meeting in August 2018 in Philadelphia. Submission of the same paper to other SSSP award competitions will disqualify the submission.
Send a copy of your paper and the faculty nomination letter as email attachments to: Dr. William Cabin (wcabin@umich.edu) , Division Chair, Sociology & Social Welfare Division, Temple University. The 2018 SSWD competition winner will receive a cash prize of $150 from the Division, one honorary plaque, and payment of one 2018 SSSP membership dues and conference registration.


Open Positions

NO NEWS. Let me know if you have anything to post for our next issue 






Newsletter Contributions Invited

We encourage members to submit news such as publications, new appointments, and other professional accomplishments for inclusion in a future newsletter. Suggestions and inquiries about less conventional content are also welcome—consider editorials, book reviews, teaching notes, department/program profiles, calls for contributions to journals and edited books, obituaries… Please direct such inquires to the current Division Chair, Bill Cabin at: wcabin@umich.edu 




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